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MySQL.com hacked for second time in a year – SQL injection to blame?

27

Sep

2011

The MySQL.com website has been struck by cybercriminals, who hacked their way in to serve up malicious code to visiting computers. Simply visiting the home page of the website, initiated a Java exploit that downloaded and executed malicious code on visiting Windows computers. No user interaction was required for PCs to become infected. The hack […]

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Doing the Zbot spot; playing gotcha with a botnet

15

Sep

2011

Greetings Internet! This month (carefully hidden under the Win32/Bamital blanket), employing the old adage ‘fight fire with fire’, we decided to fight sneakiness with sneakiness and quietly slipped a fairly major Win32/Zbot update into MSRT. “Zbot” I hear you say? Yes, it’s still around and kicking. Despite Win32/Zbot (officially self-titled with the oh-so-ego-inflating ‘Zeus’ moniker, despite […]

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Sleazy slutty emails bombard inboxes, carrying malware

06

Sep

2011

As many North Americans return to their offices after a long Labor Day weekend, they may find something unpleasant in their email inboxes. A malware campaign has been widely distributed over the last couple of days, using a wide variety of different subject lines and attachment names. There’s one thing in common between all the […]

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